WordPress 2.8!
Jun 11
About this post: WordPress 2.8 has been released! There is a bad plugin on this blog that’s breaking the admin panel JavaScript though.
WordPress 2.8 is now available! This new version isn’t as huge as WordPress 2.7, but it does come with some nifty new features of its own, like:
- A totally redesigned widgets interface (and revamped widgets API)
- A polished interface
- More screen options, giving you even finer control over your WordPress admin panel
One underlying optimization feature in WordPress 2.8’s admin panel is the compression of JavaScript to make for faster loads. However, there are some plugins that are incompatible with this new feature. As a result they totally break the JavaScript of the admin panel, which is not pretty.
I have quite a lot of plugins installed *cough* but have only found Delink Comment Author 1.3 by Alex King to be incompatible.
EDIT [6/13]: Leo pointed out that this is due to jQuery 1.3 dropping support for XPath selectors and can be trivially fixed. See his comment for instructions. Thanks Leo!
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on June 11, 2009 at 7:29 pm.
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It’s fairly easy to fix that problem with Delink Comment Author. Just open delink-comment-author.php with any text editor, search for
@id^=comment, replace them withid^=comment, save the file and it should be good. This is due to the updated jQuery 1.3.x in WordPress 2.8 that no longer supports xpath as a selector.Leo
on June 13, 2009 at 5:55 am.
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jQuery 1.3 no longer supports XPath? Awww. Oh well, I never really knew XPath anyway.
Thanks for the heads-up, Leo!
BoltClock
on June 13, 2009 at 1:17 pm.
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I wonder if there is some compatibility issues with certain servers? My update seems to have worked fine, EXCEPT now my backend is GONE!!
It seems like I’m not the only one with this problem. I have to wait until Monday to run the backup and hopefully 2.7 will restore correctly. I am not very happy. It was an unsuccessful install on both of my profession Wordpress blogs.
Brainerd Mn
on June 14, 2009 at 3:18 am.
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Ouch, I’ve never heard of that. Well, as for servers I’m not really sure. I’ve had no problems upgrading on my server except with that plugin which was easy to fix.
Good luck in getting your blogs back in order! And let’s keep our fingers crossed that they sort these issues out in 2.8.1 or so…
BoltClock
on June 14, 2009 at 3:39 pm.
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